English
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Etymology
F. déplacement.
Noun
rfc-level|Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section
en-noun
- The act of displace|displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
#:"Unnecessary displacement of funds." -A. Hamilton.
#:"The displacement of the sun by parallax." -Whewell.
- The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- chemistry The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- fencing Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodge|dodging.
- physics A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
Translations
trans-top|the state of being displaced
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Kurdish: KUchar|د��رب��د��رکرا�
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